ENDERBY, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Burt Cohen, who has run a pottery studio, has developed ceramic water filters and hopes they will bring clean drinking water to people in underdeveloped countries, a January 24 article in The Morning Star reported.
The filter project is sponsored by Potters Without Borders, an international, non-profit group which aims to help stop waterborne diseases through its ceramic water filters. Cohen is one of its founding members and the principal director, the story said.
The filters remove E. coli, Giardia, cholera and Cryptosporidium and are made with clay and other materials, according to the article.
Cohen will not make filters, but wants to share the methods and information needed to make them, the article said.
Potters Without Borders, which was founded a year ago, has received numerous requests to set up ceramic water filter manufacturing overseas, the story said.
Cohen said in the story, "Anyone can make the filters. We give them the assistance to form a facility. We provide the expertise and cause for the filters to be made there. We also give them the protocol and assistance and monitor the filters once they are up and running."
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